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Eurotunnel is to call for an independent body to regulate access to the Channel Tunnel after coming under attack from the European Commission and its biggest customer, the Eurostar high-speed train service.

Last month, Siim Kallas, the Transport Commissioner, accused the British and French governments of allowing Eurotunnel, the operator of the tunnel, to overcharge users. He also said that Eurotunnel’s charges — for Eurostar it is about £3,750 per train, plus about £14 per passenger each way — had put off new entrants from coming on to the cross-Channel rail market. Mr Kallas’s officials briefed that the charges could be halved